The Graduate Diploma in Public Management is a 3.0-credit program (6 half-credit courses):

• 0.5 credit in public management: principles and processes of public-sector management as they function through cabinet-parliamentary government, federalism, the public service bureaucracy and the judiciary
• 2.5 credits in optional courses from the following areas: organization theory, ethics in the public service, law of public authorities, public sector strategic and budgetary management, principles of finance, human resource management, industrial relations, collective bargaining in the public sector, urban and local government, third sector governance and management, as well as policy and program evaluation and globalizing public management.

Admission

Applicants must have a bachelor’s degree (or equivalent). Normally, an average of B+ or higher is required for admission. Students taking PADM 5111 or PADM 5112 must have completed a university course [1.0 credit] covering micro- and macroeconomic theory (ECON 1000 or the equivalent). Students taking PADM 5116 or PADM 5117 must have completed a relevant undergraduate political science course [0.5 credit]. at the second-year level or higher dealing with the institutions and processes by which governments legitimize and exercise power, ideally in a Canadian setting (PSCI 2003 or equivalent). Several years of relevant professional experience in the public sector may be considered as equivalent to this prerequisite.’